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Empowering future leaders through communities of practice

CLO Magazine

There’s an underutilized resource at your company that can supercharge your leadership development efforts: Communities of practice. Every successful community has emerging leaders at its core. When your sellers set up a chat to discuss tips on closing difficult sales, they have formed a community of practice.

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At the edge

Clark Quinn

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. The solution includes continuous assessment, mobile performance support, and coaching. Coaching also played a role in the case study Jane Bozarth provided. This included and Enterprise Social Network and a Knowledge Management system.

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Creating Tomorrow’s Life Sciences Sales Leaders: 3 Strategies

PDG

Charged with the overall commercial success of an organization, sales leaders contribute directly to the creation and execution of sound strategies to grow the business, while conducting critical coaching and development opportunities with sales representatives. Establish mentors who update the goals and development plans with candidates.

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70:20:10 Tech

Clark Quinn

In the past, other than courses, there was little at could be done except providing courses on how to coach, and making job aids. For the 20, coaching and mentoring, we can start delivering that wherever needed, via mobile. The technology wasn’t advanced enough. But that’s changed. The other is the rise of mobile.

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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation

Clark Quinn

In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary.

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How Does Implementing Formal Measures to Ensure Continuous Improvement Build Organisational Capability?

Acorn Labs

Formal measures for continuous improvement include implementing communities of practice (a group of people with a shared concern or interest), training evaluation, training assessments and post-training tracking. Continuous improvement is a persistent endeavour to bring improvements across the whole organisation. You see the problem?

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Detailing the Coherent Organization

Clark Quinn

I had, as Harold’s original model provided the basis for, separate groups for Work Teams, Communities of Practice, and Social Networks. As a start, I wanted to go back and look at these elements and see if I could be more systematic about it. Within each were separate elements.